Difficulty And Ease Quotes

#1. That difficulty and ease produce the one (the idea of) the other;

Lao-Tzu

#2. Those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Wayne Dyer

#4. I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

Ruth Rendell

#5. The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital ... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

John F. Kennedy

#6. When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard, even if you're very creative and a good artist.

Nancy Freund

#7. Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Isocrates

#8. Jenna went to take my hand, but I stood up and gave her my best "Everything Is Fine, No, Really, It Is" smile.

Rachel Hawkins

#9. I think we also ought to prepare the American public, by way of informing them, that Saddam Hussein has these weapons, continues to attempt to improve their capability, and would not be reluctant to export them to other countries, ... So he presents a clear and present danger.

John McCain

#10. But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

Mark Heard

#11. There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Epictetus

#12. It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled.

Alain De Botton

#13. He who only sees the obvious, wins his battles with difficulty; he who looks below the surface of things, wins with ease

Sun Tzu

#14. Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The relevant measures are not ease and difficulty. The relevant measures are readiness and unreadiness. If the time isn't right for a new idea, no power on earth can make it catch on, but if the time is right, it will sweep the world like wildfire.

Daniel Quinn

#16. Those who by valorous ways become princes ... acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.

W.K. Marriott

#17. Tombstones grew like ragged, rotting teeth from the mushy grass-covered ground.

Fiona Druce

#18. Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. Time wounds all heels.

Groucho Marx

#21. It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Samuel Smiles

#22. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Bernie Sanders

#23. Man ... need not stand alone. Prayer will open doors; prayer will remove barriers; prayer will ease pressures; prayer will give inner peace and comfort during times of strain and stress and difficulty.

Ezra Taft Benson

#24. Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

Abdu'l- Baha

#25. Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.

Ricky Jay

#26. We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

Daniel Taylor

#27. Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Alain De Botton

#28. The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

Buzz Aldrin

#29. A consensus slowly gathered among us. We had given up something important, we believed: the fire, the vigor, that came with a lack of ease. We had lost some of the difficulty of our lives, and we wanted it back.

Kevin Brockmeier

#30. 9. Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

San Juan De La Cruz

#31. Unlike some people, I don't have the urge to go sticking my fingers in it.

Rachel Hawkins